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Sent into orbit to record the shape of the ocean’s surface, two satellites helped scientists understand a deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean.


Images courtesy NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry

Published January 20, 2005
Data acquired December 26, 2004

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